3 posts tagged “qsds”

Since I have been home from Columbus, OH for a few days, I thought I would start catching up here.  I took the long way home from Columbus, so it took much longer to get home than it did to get there. Those detours will be discussed in future posts. Here is a quick class wrap up.

Well, here is what my work area looked like by the last day of class. Would you believe that I had put away a few things the day before that I knew I wasn't going to use? I don't tend to work very neatly at home either, and I tend to take more than I need for something like this- I never know what I will want to work with, and there's nothing worse than not having what you want to work with. My pretty hot pink chair is a great little find from a Staples store on the way to Columbus. My chairs with wheels here at home are very heavy and in pretty bad shape. This chair was much better than the heavy hotel chairs that tended to put holes in the plastic protecting the carpet from our paints.
Here is what the work board that was full of blue fabrics ended up looking like. I had been trying different ideas that didn't seem to work for me, until it was pointed out that I was trying to box in or frame everything. Once I tried just putting my flower photos together, things started moving along. I still have some more rearranging to do, but I think I like what is coming out. I have been taking so many flower photos and wanted to find a way to use them more in my work.... Here are a couple works in progress, and I also came home with a few more started. The photo of the rose along the bottom of the photo here, was printed onto Lutradur. It is a spun fiber that can be printed on or used in a number of ways in art quilts. It will be fun to play with. I see a new direction in my future that will be exciting! I really want to share the beauty I find in all the flowers and other things I find in the great world around us.
  Wednesday we had the afternoon off from class, and I got to meet Cathy of Moran Art and Quilts at Etsy We are both members of the Etsy Quiltsy Team, and it was great to meet her in real life. We were standing in front of my second work board with photos and some finished pieces we used in the begining of our class.
Someone in my class mentioned that there was a rose garden in Columbus... Well, I just HAD to check that out and visited the Columbus Park of Roses the last night I was in town after all my class stuff was packed back in the van. I am just showing the photo of the sign here.... Photos of the flowers will follow in another post.... I took LOTS of photos there and at another stop on the way home. They will come in very handy for the new pieces I am playing with.

Day four has come and gone, and day five is beginning..... As promised, I have a few photos to show today.

Here is an updated shot of my design walls. Yesterday began as another hot, sunny day so I decided to do up another deep blue piece of fabric with sunprints. It was later in the day than I usually get good results, but as you can see, it worked! I think I will be playing with more single color sunprinting instead of my usual ones like the pieces in the pastel colors to the left, where I combine many colors. With the single colors, the sunprints tend to be more of the focus without the distraction of the color patterns.

When painting our fabrics, we have been encouraged to just paint with no thoughts, just make fabric.... Well, I have a bit of trouble sometimeswith that, and tried this piece with the trellis cut out of contact paper and placed on the canvas before adding the colors. This may be sitting waiting for a while tofigure out just what it will become.

This is just the blue grouping I put together yesterday. I had painted the lighter blue piece upper left after I realized I had created the perfect shade to coordinate with some of my flower photos. I then had to paint a darker piece, which is folded and pinned in the middle, then the sunprinted piece in the same deep blue, but with the prints for some different texture. After these photos were taken, I printed a few more flower photos on cotton, and played with a piece Lutradur
I have had for a long time. I printed flower photos onto a few pieces and the effect is great.

Well, here I am in Columbus, Ohio attending the Quilt Surface Design Symposium (QSDS). I am taking a master class with Elizabeth Busch, and am loving it! I will have another 6 days of class, starting pretty soon, so here is a really quick post....

The class I am taking is a master class, where we bring our own pieces to work on as well as learn new techniques and get input on our work from the teacher and classmates. Last year, I was able to  come because of a scholarship that I received. One way of funding these scholarships is auctioning off small quilts that have been donated by students and faculty. Yesterday, I finally finished my little quilt for donation.... "Mountain Laurel on the Rocks" uses "rocky bits" from a chunk I constructed last year in my class with Rosalie Dace. I added Painted canvas that I did during my Elizabeth Busch class at QBL last year, and photos of the Mountain Laurel growing along Water road. Last year just before coming to Columbus, I discovered them blooming and took my first photos of this PA native. That may have had something to do with the rocks surfacing in my work, so I thought combining all these elements would be very appropriate for me to donate, because without my scholarship I would never have found myself working with new colors and more textures.